God Bless all who love the unshakable truth of our loving Creator.
                THE
SYMBOL OF THE CUP                                   By: Dr. Wesley A. Swift                                            4-17-63 We turn in our thinking this
afternoon to the subject of the Cup.Â
There is no doubt that historically there is an important and
interesting portion of history surrounding the Cup itself. Even a different and
deeper one around what the Cup was to symbolize. Something new was experienced by the disciples, but nothing new
in the mind of Yahweh, for He had known these things before the foundation of
the world. We have described for you
some of the conditions in Palestine during the time of Christ’s ministry, and
how the powers of darkness and the forces of evil by usurpation had usurped the
power of the Priesthood and taken over the power of the Temple. That true Israel..Judah and Benjamin
understood that the Temple was not in the hands of a proper Priesthood. They perceived that the defense of true
Judah and Benjamin was not these soldiers under this false Priesthood. Although they knew they were under the Roman
Empire and that Rome considered Palestine only a vassal province, still they
realized that their greatest danger came from this evil which had penetrated
deep into the Temple. This is why the
Essene Company had gathered together and were trying to preserve their records,
and scrolls, and doctrines, and were planning for the rebirth of Israel in
Palestine. This company of the Essene’s
met in secret caves and in homes of the peoples of Palestine, and there they
continued to maintain the true scrolls of the Scriptures, and where out of this
organization came the defensive organization which rallied an army which would
have crowned Christ King. Even today
all Christendom is talking about the Palm Sunday entrance of Christ into the
City of Jerusalem. As we have told you
in the past this was not something that was spontaneous, but was something
organized and designed throughout the entirety of Christ’s ministry. That He was to take over the Kingdom, that
He was the Hope of His people, that He would break the power of the Roman
Empire and free them of the force of influence that had dominated the
Temple. Then the Priesthood would be
returned under the righteousness that the Kingdom of God would bring. That the Kingdom of God would come in with
great Power and that all of the children of God would come in with great Power,
and all the Household of Israel would stand forth as One Mighty Power. They anticipated that when this came forth
the Light would go out to the ends of the earth and the Great Day of the
Kingdom would come. Now; there isn’t
any doubt about that day of the Kingdom, and there isn’t any doubt abut the
fact that we stand now on the other end of the cycle of events, almost at the
end of an era. We, like they in Old
Judea, are hoping to see the Kingdom with all it’s power come in with great
quickness. When it comes in we then
hope to see the Power of God’s Kingdom extending as His covenant’s proclaimed
until the Nations of Israel rule over the earth from one end to the other until
Christ, as enthroned ruler all over the Universe, has visited His power upon
earth and has manifested Himself with His people. We also, like they, are close to realizing that this Kingdom is
to be made manifest in an unusual way.Â
They were close to the hour of atonement, and we are close to the hour
of deliverance. We look back over those
events and find that our hearts are tied to every event that transpired, by
every act of God when He walked the earth and dwelt among us. The promises were made to us before
the foundation of this era and this Cosmic order of creation. Every conscious spirit within this room has
been in the presence of the Eternal Father, in the great assemblies of the
heavens long before the creation of this Universe. The essence of the very being of your own spirit has been
begotten out of the essence of His own Life.Â
You are life of His Life, and spirit of His Spirit. Your being placed in earth and embodied as
sons and daughters of God, is a part of the great miracle of God’s purpose when
He said He would send His Kingdom from Heaven to Earth. It is by the increase of His sons and
daughters of His Kingdom that His Kingdom expands, for of the increase of
this Kingdom there is to be no end. Â But to produce the condition of Heaven to earth then it had to
transfer from Heaven to earth the populations of the Most High, and it had to
embody them in physical bodies and that is why Paul tells you in Hebrews
that.....we the children of God are now in bodies of flesh so then God
Himself was to take part of this same flesh and dwell among us as our kinsman
and our relative. Â Because we are
the children of God, therefore, He was to identify Himself with us, but He knew
the conditions that would transpire when His Kingdom came into this earth’s
environment ruled over by a fallen Archangel who dominated the other races of
earth. Having brought catastrophe and
chaos and problems to this part of the Universe then God Himself had designed
the great and masterful program of sending His Kingdom to earth. You then still pray for it:...Thy Kingdom
come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in Heaven. By the same process He knew exactly
the reaction of His children when they were placed in physical bodies. He knew what the temptation strategies of
Lucifer would be. He knew also that
thru their fall would come the essentialness of the atonement. He knew that it required a transition in the
makeup of His people to bring about a fall that would have impact and effect
upon their race. We many times think
philosophically of the patterns and fall of the race. Every basic portion of theology of the Christian Faith has taught
from the beginning of time that the Adamic race fell, that they violated a
Divine Law, the symbolism was of a symbol of a forbidden Apple. The story was the seduction of a race and
the mongrelization or the attempted absorption of that race by Luciferian
forces. Lucifer knew that you were a
Household of body, soul, and spirit consciousness. He knew that you were the essence of God’s own people. He knew this was the beginning of a Divine
Race and knew he must mutate this race and cause it to lose its immortality and
bring death upon that society, and bring a guilt complex upon their mind to
keep them from completion of that program for which they had come. So the Most High said:....I know this,
and all this was declared unto you before you left the heavens. I have written your name in My Book of Life
because it is the Lamb’s Book of Life and because it is the sacrificial
transposing of power. And I assure you
that altho you will fall, still, you shall be restored because the Life that
fills thy spirit is Eternal. You are
life of My Life, and breath of My Breath, and I am not going to leave your body
to be destroyed by the disintegration that death and the grave produces. Nor, am I going to leave your soul
imprisoned in the conscious imprisonment that descends upon it by Luciferian
design. There is not going to be any
defeat over my children spirit, soul, or body because they will be delivered. Â In the fullness of time this is to be
manifested, the manifested revelation of God’s Word unto you and He iterated
these words again unto Enoch in those days of truth and revelation. Also, to the Apostle Paul as well as when
Paul received his mighty Apocalypse from which came the great doctrines which
he used to bring forth his Epistles. So
it is that you might know who you are, the white race, the Adamic race, and the
great white throne in preparation, the Household of God in the earth. Though your fall was as complete
for you as any race’s fall could be, for by the violation of Divine Law was
lost for your race in the earliest hours of your original physical parents, the
Aura of Life, and the Glory from the Spirit which would have continued to have
made you immortal. From the beginning
of your race’s first parents then death descended upon your race, not death of
the soul, for the soul does not die, not death of the Spirit, for the Spirit
does not die, but death descended upon this physical body, and bondage has
descended over the patterns of the mind. One of the great and important
programs of God is to restore the soul consciousness of His people, and to
renew their minds, and set them free from all the areas of the thinking of
their consciousness which might hold them bound. To take this guilt complex and lift it from them and set them
free. This is a part of the great and
mighty program of atonement, also by this and to do this then God had to, once
again, join Himself as only God could assume it.... the fullness of all the
responsibility of all the transgressions that His sons and daughters had
wrought while in the earth. He also had
to, as one of them, pay a price such as no one of them could have paid by
themselves, in order to assume upon Himself with all the legal authority which
God could assume, the transgression of all His people. Having assumed them, having paid the price
for them, having set them aside, then could say unto those who are His children
that......No one can condemn you, for I have assumed this, I have paid the
price, you have now passed from condemnation unto Life. The magnitude of the Christian
Faith is built around the great and tremendous acts of God Himself. It is built around the substitutionary death
of Jesus the Christ. That is why we say
that by the “Sign of His Cross†we have the mighty emblem of His Faith. That is why the Apostle Paul said...God
forbid that I should glory, save, in the cross of Jesus Christ. Â Unless one knows the background of the origin
of race, and the magnitude of the Plan of God for His Kingdom, then they can
never fully recognize the great transitions which have transpired in the
patterns of their own existence, or the magnitude of God’s own Grace. When we celebrate these events which
surrounded the Life of Christ, we are also witnessing the most important impact
of events which ever came upon receiving consciousness. For above all perception then God was
establishing with His power, and out of the energies of His own mind which held
the Universe together....the fore-ordained patterns of the levels of all the
Law’s of the dimensions and of sound, of all the various levels of creation
held together by the consciousness of His perception. There is nothing that He did not know, there was nothing that He
could not foresee, but there were some things that He had not experienced. There was in the highest impact of all
perceptions of consciousness in the fartherest range of emotions, and in the
most extreme patterns of the affinity of a Father for His children, the
expression of God in the fulfillment of the pattern of Atonement. Nothing like this could have taken place
because nothing on this magnitude had ever taken place before. We have watched the hands of destiny as we
read from the patterns of the Old Testament, and it records on down to the time
of Christ...the experience of a people.Â
A people of whom Our Father said...My words shall not depart out of
thy mouth, or out of the mouth of thy seed, or out of the mouth of thy seeds
seed forever. Â A race that shall
continue to worship the One True God, and even in the courses of the wavering
leadership shall always return to this standard. A people who shall dwell in the
earth and in the course of time as the children are begotten, the seed of the
spirit comes forth into the world in physical bodies. A holy seed not to be mongrelized, integrated, or contaminated,
but lifted and elevated, and glorified because your Father has ordained this is
true. If there was any guilt complex to
suppress the human soul, if there was any condemnation which rested upon our
race, then these events which we celebrate in these Lenten periods culminating
with Christ’s Resurrection should set you free from all this and for all time. It should have left no fear, and all guilt complexes, all
promises of great catastrophes ahead.Â
It should have let you see by Light that you are a people that are free.
There can be no doubt of the fact that the great crowds organized skillfully by
the Essene’s and by the work of the Disciples wanted to crown Christ King. As those throngs went out the Gate’s of
Jerusalem to watch Him approach, as we have described to you in the past, they
were prepared for this, for the Army’s of Christ stood by. In this instance Barabbas who was a
Nationalist, and whose armies had been prepared to serve Christ, also thought
and hoped that the time had come when He would take the Crown. As He entered into the City of Jerusalem as
the Scriptures say....He came riding on an ass, the foal of an ass walking
alongside and the people cried, Hosanna in the highest to the son of
David. Hosanna to Yahshua who comes in
the name of Yahweh. Â These people
not only understood the writing of Isaiah, but they knew that this was the
embodiment of God who was their promised Messiah. They threw down the Palm branches before Him, and they shouted
Hosanna and their children scattered flowers, and valiant men now lifted
flaming swords of steel that were in their hands to defend their King. Their Tunic’s were uncovered and the blue
Tunic’s with the crossed golden Fish on the front flashed in the sun. Those who stood on the Temple steps trembled
at this display and before these people. As we have told you before, the
people now came before Christ to offer Him the Crown, but He did not take the
Crown that day but He said this to those of His people standing there and to
you as well....I cannot take the crown, altho I am a King and it is my right
to reign. But if I took the crown today
I would rule you in bondage, I would rule you under the guilt complex of
transgression of sin. So I will take
the crown, and that day my servants will fight and my kingdom will not be given
to the Jew’s. What a Cup it is! Jesus had spoken of such a Cup. He spoke of it in just a little difference
of significance than that for which it had been so skillfully wrought. Joseph of Arimathea, the Uncle of Mary, and
the Uncle of Christ symbolically, and what a privilege and experience to be the
Uncle of Christ. He was a member of the
secret Essene Company, the way the people of today belong to Patriotic
organizations....for fear of the Jew’s.Â
At the same time Joseph of Arimathea spent his time and a considerable
amount of his money trying to bring in the Kingdom as he thought it would
come. He had believed faithfully that
Christ would rise and take the power to bring in the Kingdom, but also he had
been a devout student of those things that John the Baptist in the spirit of
Elijah had proclaimed in the mysteries of revelation when he was but a small
boy in the Essene Company. He had
prepared for this hour also because John the Baptist had constantly proclaimed
that Jesus would take the Cup, and not at this time take the Kingdom crown, but
John the Baptist spoke of the appearances of Christ as though not once but
again, that he would make two special ministries to earth. Believing there was some mystery in
this then Joseph of Arimathea felt compelled to prepare a Cup, and what would
this Cup be? It would be a Legal Cup, a
Cup that was used for the pattern of ceremony, and that which would be used,
would symbolize like a sacrament, a Cup which would require a Chalice on the
outside of an inner Cup. So Joseph sent
to Greece and he found one of the rarest of all of the engravers named
Demetrius, the Silversmith, and he brought him to his home. There as Christ talked with His disciples so
many times around the table and in this home about the things pertaining to the
Kingdom, the purposes and the plans and the program, then there behind a
curtain in an alcove sat Demetrius the Silversmith and he drew up this outer
Chalice which would hold the inner Cup.Â
On this outer Chalice were the faces of Christ and all the disciples
except Judas of Iscariot, and only his turned face was shown. Six times the Silversmith tried to form the
face of Judas and failed. Then the
7th., time he showed his face turning away. Upon this Chalice was the pattern
of Christ seated at the table with His disciples and this was the outer Cup or
Chalice. Inside this Chalice or holder
was an inner Silver Cup. Both were
prepared by the most skilled of artisans so in that day which they talk of as
Palm Sunday...on this day when the desire was to crown Christ King, the plan
had been made for the people to come from every part of Palestine for this
crowning ceremony. When Jesus refused
the crown and took the Cup, few people understood what this Cup signified. Even His disciples whom He spoke to and
which we find recorded in Matthew 20., did not realize the significance of this
Cup. He said to them...are ye able
to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? They said unto Him, we are
able. Jesus said, yea, surely ye shall,
but they understood not what He meant by those words. Â This Cup was the symbolic symbol of Unity and
the sealing of a covenant. The Cup was
the pattern of the identity of God with His people. The Cup is served in several times, in instances in the
background of Biblical history. We see
the coming forth in the days in Ancient Egypt after the building of the Ancient
city of On with its great Temple, and also in the preparation of the great
development of the Altar and Pillar in the land of Egypt. Enoch and Job, the great Patriarch’s, had
assembled 144,000 there in the land of Egypt for this purpose, and Egyptian
history also tells us this....that Osiris, Lord of Life, and Resurrection, was
there. Actually, they were talking
about Yahshua the embodiment of Yahweh-God, as He came forth accompanied by His
Celestial minions, and surrounded by Light.Â
He stood before them and they had a Cup, and they did drink of the Cup
and eat of the Bread which He break unto them.Â
For as the Egyptians said...Osiris, the Lord of Life, and
Resurrection, had visited His people. Â Yes, this is what the Egyptians said about the Dedication and the
preparation for this building of a great Temple. The Great God of these white men who had built the Ancient city
of On, came to earth and offered them a Cup.Â
These white men drank of that Cup, and they caught the significance of
this, understanding that this was a symbol of their Unity with Him throughout
all time and all ages. Symbolically
also we remember the experience which took place when Abram, whose name would
be changed to Abraham, was “called of God†for the purity of a race, for the
preservation of a society, lest the Sethite race be completely absorbed in Ur
of the Chaldee’s by the design of the internationalists or the mongrelizers of
Lucifer’s camp. We understand how God
called Abraham out and how God delivered him in the great battle for the Gold
of Ophir on the plains of Shalimar. How
as the King’s fought they moved against Abraham and his household, and he
survived by the intervention of God Himself.Â
Then you remember after the victory of that day that the records tell us
that Melchizedek approached unto Abraham.Â
Melchizedek was the Eternal Living Priesthood of the Almighty God. The embodiment of God as Priest with His
people, without beginning of days or end of Life,      always a Priest King forever.Â
And He approached unto Abraham and set before him the Bread and the
Wine. The symbol again was the symbol
of the Covenant of the Cup...of the Unity which existed between the Eternal God
and His people who are spirit of His Spirit, and flesh of His Flesh, and bone
of His bone. The Scriptures tell us that we
did not receive the spirit which the world received but the spirit which is out
of God. Therefore we are not of
this world as He was not of this world, because we are of Him. We are out of Him, and the covenant of His
reappearing manifestation seals this constantly and continuously with the
Element of the Cup. With such a Cup
also in the symbol of this Unity could the Priest’s seal off the responsibility. Or could one who could assume responsibility
close such a covenant filling the Cup with clear water or the fruit of the
vine. One could empty such a Cup and
assume upon it the full responsibility. That day of Palm Sunday in the
early hour when the people were ready to crown Him King, they knew not what was
meant by that Cup. Nor had His
disciples understood it when He had spoken of it to them at an earlier hour of
what was to transpire. It was not long,
you know, after this experience of Palm Sunday when the time of the preparation
for the Passover was approaching and Jesus told His disciples to go to a
certain man whom they would find carrying a Vessel of water, and they were to
ask this man to give them the guest room that the Master might eat the Passover
with His disciples. Thus it was that
Peter and John found this man going into his house carrying this Vessel of
water, and they said to him...The master has asked for the use of your guest
room so that He would eat the Passover with His disciples. Â The man opened up his house and Jesus sent
His disciples to prepare the Passover.Â
Thus it was that in the interlude in which Christ had rejected the
Throne, not rejecting the people, but acknowledging the people, and telling
them of a more important mission that He had for them. That He might rule them some day without any
fear, transgression, or guilt. Rule
them as free people without any imputation of judgment. Altho they could not understand in all what
this was significant of, we point out to you that in that upper room as the
disciples were seated around that table...that even Judas was there. Sometimes we wonder if the nature
of these, our enemies, can be understood, and probably nothing makes them more
understandable than an examination of Judas.Â
I was much interested in an editorial in the Herald Examiner this week
written by Jim Bishop. He describes the
disciples and he said...’12 of them were Galileans but one of them was not.’
then he describes this curly headed Jew who betrayed Jesus and he said...’this
is like unto them, for they have no Faith in God, they are phoney and they
don’t believe in anything. They were in
the days of Christ’s ministry and they are still the same today.’ In this
matter Judas Iscariot had gone from the day of Palm Sunday’s declaration of
Christ’s Kingship and went to the Priest’s and said...I will tell you where to
find Barabbas who led this Army. You
will find him at the house of the sons of Zebedee. The Priest’s wanted Rome to do the captivity because they said
that Barabbas was a seditionist against Rome.Â
So Roman soldiers came and took Barabbas and put him in prison. Barabbas was a historical leader of an
underground army who stood up for Christ, similar to the John Bircher’s stand
for the U.S. today. A secret army for
fear of the Jew’s altho many of them disclaim that this is their enemy. Strangely Judas said “I now contract with
you, for if you want me to deliver Jesus to you then it will have to be for a
price.†Even the devil’s charge one another for their work, and the
Priest’s and Scribe’s gathered around and they said : “It is essential that
we kill this one, but we don’t dare make a big open display of this because the
Passover is about to take place, and there will be true men of Israel here from
all over the earth.†Now; these false Priest’s knew they were not of
Israel, they had heard the parable of Jesus and they knew the part they played
as they ruled and controlled this community.Â
They knew that Jesus had given them a parable concerning the man whose
property was in the hands of strangers who had taken possession of it. They killed His prophets and His messengers,
and when the very embodiment of authority came....the rightful heir...they
said....â€We must kill him also because we are not the rightful heirs and we
don’t want to lose this property. And
the Jew’s perceived that Jesus spake this against them, and they plotted how
they could put Him to death.†As these Priest’s spoke to Judas
Iscariot then they said that it is imperative that we do this in our own
way, and that we seize Him without a great demonstration because if we take Him
in the daytime when people can see then there will be trouble. Â So you, Judas, you know where He goes at
night and where He spends His time, so we will give you 30 pieces of silver if
you will identify Him for our guards of the evening so that we can take Him in
secret. Â We think then of how Judas
made his arrangements, but the actual design of where it would take place would
depend upon the events that would follow. Here upon the day of the Passover, Judas
sat with the other disciples with Jesus.Â
We think of these things Jesus talked about as He spoke of the Kingdom
and how He told them it would not be long because He was going to be leaving
them. He talked about the areas of
their responsibilities, and some of them were wondering who among them would be
the greater, but Jesus said that in a very short time that this would not be a
problem. Others were disturbed about
what was ahead, and did not understand some of these things Jesus had referred
to, actually meant. He talked about the
test that would be made of their Faith and remember how Peter said...â€don’t
worry about me because I will go with you to prison, or even to death.â€
Jesus said to Peter...â€even before the cock crow’s thrice you will deny me,
and Peter said....not I.†Then we listen as Jesus talked with
them, and He filled the Cup, and they had broken the Bread of the Passover, and
now they were to go into the most significant experience they had yet had
concerning the Sacrament. The Cup was
filled with the Fruit of the Vine, the bread was upon the table and as they
about to eat Jesus said...â€one of you who puts his hand into the dish shall
betray me. Each and everyone of them
spoke up and said, Lord is it I?†This was an astonishing thing for to
these men, 11 of them Galileans, could not conceive of any situation in which
they would betray Christ and place Him in the hands of the enemy. Judas sat there, and he had the slimy
hyprocratical capacity to turn to Jesus at this moment and say...â€Lord it is
I?†Jesus looked at this Jew and He said...â€It is as you have said, go
and do this thing that you must do.†In other words, get up and get out of
here....be gone. Judas left and went
straight to the High Priest’s to arrange the climax of the betrayal of Jesus
the Christ, for Jesus had said in the conversation at the table that they would
go that night to the Garden of Gethsemane because the hour was very close. In these instances I want to point
out to you that here at the Last Supper, Jesus had re-identified Himself, He
laid the formula for the table which He ordained the Apostle Paul to instruct
the Church to follow. The symbol again
had been the Cup which He had accepted that day. The outer Chalice so beautifully wrought holding the inner Cup,
and this was the Cup which Joseph of Arimathea had handed back to him for a
moment, and then taken back by Christ, and this Cup was used for the
Passover. Here at the Last Supper,
Jesus had said as He broke the Bread....this bread which is being broken is
my body, and it is being broken for you.Â
As they partook of the cup Jesus said, divide it among yourselves for
this cup is my blood of the new covenant which is being shed for you. Â They received this and in the explanation of
what Jesus gave them to understand was....that the Unction of His Spirit was
consecrating these elements and rejoining them and recharging them, flesh of
His Flesh, and bone of His Bone, and now even blood of His Blood. Also adding unto them by this pattern of
this new covenant the assurance that these things to come were to also be
shared by them in that He had become for them the substitute. This the disciples did not at that moment
fully understand, tho they understood that the Passover Lamb had been the
substitute for their errors and transgressions and had become the Sign of their
deliverance. Uniquely as Jesus continued to
speak to them of things of importance concerning the earth. I point out to you that every once in a
while we have people who are not very realistic about the program of God’s
Kingdom and do not realize that in the midst of these events that there was no
changing of the plan or the purposes of God from these things taking
place. His atonement of great magnitude
was just ahead. His plan was all ready
for His disciples to go out and spread the word, and was already in unfolding
revelations. He had told His disciples
some of these things, and here after breaking this bread, having given them the
sacraments He said to His disciples....... Now; when I sent you out
previously, is said to you, do not take purses or script or shoes and did you
lack anything? They said, no.Â
But this was because they were in the abiding presence of the King, for
even in the hour of the birth of the King, the Wisemen of your race fulfilling
their responsibilities, had brought gifts of Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh, and
also the Crown and the Robe had been gifts, and there had been sufficient
provided, so that it took care of the needs of the disciples throughout the
ministry of Christ. The hour would come
when they would be parted from their Master and events would come in their
ministry when He would not be bodily with them even tho His Spirit was never to
leave nor forsake them. So Jesus
said...now; previously when I sent you forth I told you to take nothing, but
now, when you go out in the future, he who has a purse let him take it, and
likewise take his script, or his records and his valuables and securities take
with you. Â As to the importance of
this...remember this is at the Last Supper and there Jesus said...he who has
not a sword let him sell his garment and go out and buy one. For I say unto you this is written and must
be yet accomplished. And He was
reckoned among the transgressors, for the things concerning me have an end. Â Luke 22:36-37. This was referring to the climax of
His earth life, and the disciples said to Him...we have two swords, and
Jesus said, it is enough. Â At this
point it is enough, then as we have pointed out before, Jesus instructed His
disciples to buy swords for the early Church records point out that Jesus
instructed them to go forth armed for He said...I send you forth like sheep
among wolves. I do not ask you not to defend yourselves, and I do not ask you
to make of yourselves a sacrifice, for what I am about to do is the payment for
all times. Â In this instance the
disciples had been given their last admonition for their task, and how to
prepare for it. Then they went to the Garden of
Gethsemane and again the Cup was with them.Â
What was its purpose? Why the
Cup now as they approached the Garden?Â
As they went to this spot where Jesus had gone so many times with His
disciples, they stopped to rest and He went a stones throw from where the
disciples were. You have this record of
this experience in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. How He left His disciples, all but Peter,
James, and John, and He took them a little further towards the side of the hill
in the Garden, and then leaving even them, Jesus went still a little further
after telling them to watch. We are
told that He drew apart to pray. One of the most important things
for you to understand, and it is very vital for you to understand this, because
translations and the attitudes of Theology in trying to break God up into
multiple parts, have obscured the magnitude of what was actually
transpiring. For this was the fullness
of God dwelling bodily as the man Christ Jesus, as Paul tells you in
Colossians. This was the Eternal God who had walked with His disciples as a man
among men, and it had been by the very purpose of His own Divine Plan that the
energies of His own Spirit had consummated the conception that brought forth
from the Virgin Mary the very body of God. That this child growing up, and this
man who stood before them, was the very Yahweh-God standing before them. These were the very things to which the
disciples were to testify to. These
were the very things they were to know. I point out to you that Isaiah had
made a declaration of great significance which is vital to your understanding
concerning the importance of this Cup which Jesus now carried here in the
Garden of Gethsemane. In the 43rd.,
Chapter of Isaiah we hear the words of the Eternal God speaking through
Isaiah...â€For I am Yahweh, thy EL, the Holy One of Israel, thy Yahshua.â€Â Then He also makes this statement while
talking to Isaiah..(44:8) “Is there any God beside me? There is no God, I know not any. I alone am thy savior, thy maker, creator,
husband, father....and He referred to Himself as married to this race. He referred to Himself as the Father of the
Spirits of the children of the Household, and in this instance He said “I am
thy Savior.†Now; He alludes to His physical embodiment and in the
magnitude of prophecy under the spirit, Isaiah (53:1) makes this great
statement....â€Who hath believed our report?Â
And to whom is the arm of Yahweh revealed? (Vs.2) For he shall grow up before him as a tender
plant, and as a root out of a dry ground; he hath no form nor comeliness, and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him...except
that out of himself. (That is what the old declaration
says.)Â (Vs.3)...He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Vs.4)...Surely he hath born our griefs, and carried
our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.†In these declarations this is the
prophecies of Jesus the Christ, the Eternal Yahweh dwelling as a man among
men. His Divine capacity of Spirit able
to commune in full perception with the consciousness of that which had been
born of Mary. I bring forth to you this
declaration of Isaiah in 53:10....that it had pleased the Eternal Yahweh that
even this physical embodiment of Himself could yet be bruised and put to grief.
And therefore, that He would offer His soul as an offering for sin, and that He
would see His seed prolong his days, and the pleasures of the Eternal Yahweh
would perform this. The acceptance of
the soul of God, that upon the body He would reside in...of the guilt of the
world, was to be the most tremendous experience in the realm of emotion and
grief that could be experienced by any being in the Universe. Because every thing which God had put
together was a Law. Everything He had
made was right, for it was the essence of His own being. This was immutability, this was perfection,
this was righteousness, for righteousness begins in the act of God for Him to
assume upon His own consciousness because He was God doing a finishing
work. The guilt of the errors of all
violation of Law...because this is what sin is, and assume this upon His own
sinless and perfect nature would be the greatest and most expressive pattern of
love that had ever been demonstrated in all time and history. For if there had not been sufficient power
here, altho there was, had there not been a purity of purpose higher than had
ever been manifested, but there was, the Universe could have fallen apart in
the experiences that this week covers. No wonder that after His own
Heavenly experiences that the Apostle Paul understood the magnitude of this and
he could say.....He was the fullness of God dwelling bodily.  I want you to understand that this wasn’t God
divided into different parts or different beings. This was the Eternal Spirit of God able to commune even in the
meditation of the physical consciousness that was about to sacrifice itself. Knowing that in this was the only essence of
separation. That this Spirit like your
spirit could not die. But by the power
of this Spirit and by the intent of its purpose it was going to raise this very
body up from the dead afer it had assumed upon itself the fullness of all
transgression. Therefore, this was the
most important single possible fact that the human consciousness could
understand. No wonder then that Jesus now take
the Cup, by the spring in the Garden, and fills it with clear water and then
lifts that Cup. Then in the humanity of
His physical consciousness feels now the great weight of what is about to
transpire. The Scripture says He now
felt the weight, the grief, the shadow of the impending death which He knew so
accurately was to come. He knew that
death for God was an impossible experience except He had prepared this. He knew
that altho rightfully His enveloping Aura and His Divine nature should surround
His physical body, yet, He had left this off so that He might taste death for
you and me. The only time we have
record of that Majesty being revealed is when for one moment in His humanity He
wanted to reveal to His disciples the Glory of His Eternal being. So, on the Mount of Transfiguration it
passed upon Him and then off of Him so that He might finish this task. Had He left on Himself the Glory which is
His rightful heritage and was also yours in the hour of the beginning of your
race...the crucifixion would have been impossible and His death would have not
taken place. The Apostle Paul
understood all this and he said...By one man, Adam, came death, by another,
the second Adam came life. Â But the
Life had to come in flesh like unto yours, in a body like yours, capable of
feeling and being afflicted by pain, and by problems like yours. That in all these things might this Spirit
triumph, and having triumphed in this body, fulfilled this work
called....ATONEMENT. To accomplish this it had to be a
Lamb without spot or blemish, it had to be an individual without guilt. That is the reason why it couldn’t be just
anyone in our race, for no one measured up to this. No one had the purity of mind, the purity of thought and the
excellence of perfection that rested upon Yahweh God who walked among men. Thus it was that this Master of excellence
in every decision made with righteousness of His Divine perception, now assumes
in this Garden all this in.....The Cup. First He lays down the Cup and He
pours it out and He said....If there be any other route but this way....not
the will of the flesh, but the will of the spirit be done. Â He walked back to His disciples and found
them asleep and He said...Couldn’t you watch this one hour with me?  Then He walks back to the spot once more and
took the Cup. As He meditated upon this
Cup He says...Oh, if there had been another way but this cup....and
again He pours it out and goes back to His disciples and they are asleep, and
this time He says....Let them sleep, for it won’t be long now, and they will
need their rest. Â Again He fills the
Cup with water, and He lifts this Cup and holds it before the Hosts of Heaven
and He said....Would that there had been another route, another way. Â It was not the death that He feared for He
knew the mighty power of His Spirit, but it was death accompanied by all the
transgressions of the world that He was taking upon Himself. To drink this Cup now meant that by the
literal covenant of drinking this Cup He took upon Himself every transgression
ever committed in this whole Universe.Â
He was buying the world to free the children in it. He could not just Atone for a few
transgression, He was your Redeemer, kinsmen redeemer, and was paying the price
for your transgressions. But He had to
pay also the price for all transgressions even assuming, with this Cup, His
ability as Yahweh-God to even stop Lucifer’s rebellion. So this Cup covered not only all of the
Universe but covered as well even the day of Lucifer’s restoration as a Star of
the Morning. He took the Cup in His hand for the
last time and He said....Not the will of the flesh no this consciousness as
such, but the will, My Will, as Yahweh-God...and He drank this Cup to the
last drop. Upon His sinless nature
without one mark, or one fact, or one single act which made this a blemished
Lamb, He had taken into the consciousness of His soul the guilt of all transgression,
as God the creator alone could alter or stop at any place or time. Do you realize how great this was? So great was that strain that no human
experience could compare with the agony of that moment. For even as the tensions came upon His being
from the perspiration of His body dropped great drops of Blood. In this moment was the great test of
time...this was where Lucifer was losing his struggle for the earth, because
the great Deity of the fullment of the Universe in a human body, assumed upon
Himself at that moment, the absolute fulfillment, the completion of all
transgressions. That He might confirm
also that without the shedding of blood there was no remission of
transgression. Oh, there could be the
great race of Divine nature, the forgiveness of God throughout all times, for
the Apostle Paul tells us in the Tenth Chapter of Hebrews that every year the
Priest went in and made a substitutionary offer, and every time this was done
it was the symbol of Atonement, and each time the Heart of God suffered. But now, for all time, at the end of an age,
it was God Himself in human body who became the sacrifice, that He might do
away with the fears and darkness, and ignorance, and guilt for all times. That the sin question would be settled, and
men could live without the fears of darkness. So He took the Cup and He drained
that Cup to the last drop. This Cup
became a very valuable and unique artifact in Christian history. It was only a matter of a few moments after
having drank the Cup, before the clank of Arms entered the Garden. The disciples were now awake, and the Cup
lay by the rock where Jesus had been praying.Â
We are told by Mark that John, the beloved disciple, was standing by and
looking with wonderment upon this Army and wondering what they would do. Then Peter seeing Judas Iscariot at the head
of this Army drew his sword. Judas
stepped toward the Christ and gave Him a kiss and Jesus with the contempt which
He had for this type of operation said....Would you betray God with a kiss?  Only a Jew would do something like this. Having walked with Him for 3 years, and
having watched the miracles and the magnitude of His Grace...then sold Him for
30 pieces of Silver. Many say....but why was this permitted? There is something which sometime
you will understand. The Restoration
and the Atonement. This was a oneness
with God made for each and every one of you by the Father Himself. This was an Atonement in its fullness, for
His Household would not carry out the work of Lucifer. So it had to be a child of Lucifer in the fullness
of operation. And it had to be the
children of Lucifer who would stand in judgment....and so it was. For Jesus had said to these people that...Ye
are of your father the devil, and Judas Iscariot was one of them. As they then identified Jesus in the
darkness of the Garden then the Army of the Jew’s approached Jesus and Peter
swung his sword, and his aim not being as good as he would have liked, he only
succeeded in cutting off the ear of the servant of the High Priest. Turning to Peter Jesus said....Peter, put
up your sword. Â Peter is amazed
because a short time before this he had been told to sell his coat if necessary
and buy a sword, and how he is told to put up his sword. But Jesus did not need the sword of Peter
for His protection for He could have if they had only known, shown them that
this place was surrounded by whole Legions of the Celestial plane’s. He could have brought in and materialized
great Host’s and Mighty Power, but the hour for that had not yet come. However, the hour is coming as it
is reinterated 3 times in the records and before Pilate, that...My servants
will fight and the Kingdom will not be given to the Jew’s.  So here and now He told Peter to put up his
sword, and then He restored the ear to the servant of the High Priest. And they
led Christ out of the Garden and to His trial. By the assumption of responsibility
that marked the beginning of experiece that took place when they offered Him
the Cup which was to be used for the Passsover and then used to assume the
Covenant of your transgressions, this is all now over. And we stand today looking back over 1900
plus years of these events of history, and I tell you this, that is you have a
guilt complex today, if you stand condemned, then you condemn yourself. The world may condemn you because it
despises the Kingdom, but your Father says...I don’t condemn you because I
took this all upon myself. Â Do you
want to know how to please God today?Â
Look Him in the face and say...â€Our Father.†Don’t look at Him with
fear, but with realization that He paid the price, that He assumed the
responsibility, He finished it for you. Later as we think upon those events
around Calvary, remember that He said...â€It is finished.â€Â And when He said that He then dropped His
head, then you were Free. This was not
for just one moment of time, this was not for just those who had come before
Him...this Atonement was for the whole House of Israel, and it also paid the
price of all transgression throughout the world, from that time to all time
Immortal. Until in that manifestation of His
Power and Glory He was going to transfer this world as the sons and daughters
of His Kingdom into one of the greatest hours of Majesty and Victory that this
world has every known. We no longer have before us a
promise of the Light going out. Our
enemies may be planning to destroy the United States of America, but they are
never going to make it. Oh yes, they
have a plan and they are pushing that plan on all front’s, and they think the
Light is going out when they crush us, but this is just the thinking of the
children of Lucifer in all ages. You are about to see manifested the
Mighty Victory of God’s Kingdom and Power.Â
You are about to see the re-entrance again of the Majesty of Christ with
a body that you can see, and a body that you can touch. For the Eternal Yahweh...thy Yahshua, is
going to fulfill all His responsibilities.Â
I want you to know that in this Lenten period you should think of the
greatness of these things which God wrought for us. Now withholding His own embodiment and the experiences which were
an agony to the Heart of God, to have taken any possiblity of error upon His
sinless nature. He went out of the
Garden with the weight of the world upon His shoulders, and because of that You
and I are Free. So let no man place again by
Priestcraft or by superstition any fear upon you. There is no destiny ahead of you except that which the Father has
planned for His children and which is for your well being. And we shall know that the Kingdom’s of this
world shall become the Kingdom’s of Our Lord and His Christ, and they shall
acknowledge you. He is going to make
them know that He had loved you. As we
think upon these things we remember it is a time of testing, but it is also a
time of experience which leads to Victory! Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â (End of this message)
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